Jul 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members and campus researchers are encouraged to attend the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) lab’s online webinar on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. to learn more about the NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler, a shared resource for campus users available starting in...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and professor of bioengineering, has recently published a paper, “Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Visualizes a Prognostic Extracellular Matrix-Related Signature in Breast Cancer,” in Scientific Reports. The study identified...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Story originally from Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jongsook Kim Kemper, Professor of Molecular and Integrative physiology, and her colleagues Sangwon Byun (co-first author), Sunmi Seok (co-first author), Young Kim (research scientist), and Peter Yau have published...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Interview originally from Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. CCIL Member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, assistant professor of food and science and human nutrition, is the leader of the Women’s Health and Nutrition Lab, where she is currently focusing on...
Nov 4, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Kai Zhang CCIL member Kai Zhang , professor of biochemistry, developed a novel optogenetic technique, called GLIMPSe, to use light to control and stabilize the lifetime of intracellular proteins. Zhang stated that this method is a nontoxic and more efficient way to...
Sep 15, 2019 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Victoria Krummick, Bioengineering Cancer Scholars Program What is your educational background and what led you to the U of I? I am a junior in Bioengineering, and the Cancer Scholars Program (CSP) was actually one of the deciding factors for me on why I came to...
Aug 22, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The gene-editing technology CRISPR is already making a huge difference across many scientific fields, but its importance could be about to grow even further – scientists have discovered a new technique that can leave out particular sections of a gene, essentially...
Jul 2, 2018 | Cancer Center News
DNA nanostructure flips lipids from one side of a lipid bilayer to the other more than 1,000 times as fast as natural enzymes called scramblases, researchers report (Nat. Commun. 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04821-5). Asymmetry in the lipid composition of the inner...
May 21, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor Andrew Smith, right, and graduate student Mohammad Zahid. With targeted drug and gene therapies, finding the target cells is only half the battle. Once these agents reach a cell’s surface, they still have to get inside and do their job. University...
Mar 29, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The Computational Genomics workshop co-sponsored by the Cancer Center, Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on Friday, March 2, 2018 was a great success. Over 70 participants from departments across campus attended to hear...
Jan 18, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Saurabh Sinha. Saurabh Sinha, a professor of computer science, is among the top researchers in the field of bioinformatics whose work aligns with the campus vision to excel in health and medicine. He has worked on computational models of the genetics of...
